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Network Notifications

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  • 04-01-2008 10:37am
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    LoLth
    Registered Users Posts: 10,339 ✭✭✭✭


    Anyone know of setting up a schedule of notifications that doesnt use Outlook (its a windows network - 2k3 server) to pop up a particular message every thursday at a particular time on all PCs currently logged in. Novell had a lovely network messager that you could schedule but I cant find an equivalent on 2k3


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    seamus
    Registered Users Posts: 68,317 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    Have a look at the "NET SEND" comment. You could create a scheduled task that sent a broadcast one of these.

    Problem is that many if not most security policies disable windows messaging by default to prevent users from abusing the net send.


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    LoLth
    Registered Users Posts: 10,339 ✭✭✭✭LoLth


    yep. I was thinking of something along the lines of net send alright but does this work with vista (yes we have a few) and Mac machines ? Thing about net send is that it requires the messenger service to be running which in turn allows messages to be sent without any authentication - this services was disabled by default in XP SP2 iirc as it was considered a severe security risk. I would be ok with enabling the messenger service on a non-critical machine for sending but I think it also needs to be enabled on all recipient machines which is not really an option.


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